‘Bully’ Documentary Director: Romney Should Lead On This Issue

[kpete]

‘Bully’ Documentary Director: Romney Should Lead On This Issue

Mitt Romney’s prep-school days have been under intense scrutiny this week after a report detailed an incident where he held down a classmate and cut his hair. But instead of dismissing the incident as long-ago “hijinks,” the former Massachusetts governor should use the attention as an opportunity to lead on the issue of bullying, said Lee Hirsch, the director of “Bully”, a new documentary that focuses on bullying in U.S. schools.

“What I see is an opportunity for Mitt Romney to lead and really be an advocate for decreasing bullying,” Hirsch told TPM in a phone interview Friday. “It’s sad to hear what occurred many years ago characterized as ‘pranks’ and ‘horsing around.’ We’re no longer conformable with the notion of describing bullying as ‘kids will be kids.’ This was a presidential moment, and this should be a teachable moment for him.”


more:

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/mitt-romney-bully-lee-hirsch-documentary.php?ref=fpblg

[ibegurpard]

1. it's too late

he's already lost the opportunity.
any decent person would've remembered participating in something like that...and it wouldn't have been tolerated 30 years ago when I was in school nor, if it had been someone other than the governor of Michigan's son, I suspect would it have been tolerated when Romney was in school either.
A decent person would have said something like this: "I wish I didn't but I remember very well participating in that particular incident and it shames me to this day. I truly wish I could go back in time and erase it and I am so profoundly sorry for the pain that I caused that young man. "
Romney's reaction to this now is far more damning of his character than his participation in the incident at the time. Bullying is tremendously destructive and it haunts the people involved their entire lives.

[Politicalboi]

2. Rmoney doesn't know a

Teachable moment if it knocked him down and gave him a hair cut. "Atta Girl Mittens"

[Trajan]

3. I think LYING is the teachable moment ...nt